Choke (2008)

Choke (2008)

Being a huge fan of fight club, I was very excited to see Choke. They are both based on books by Chuck Palahnuik and I think they are both good, but very different. Fight Club is much better but I think it would have been interesting to see what Choke could have been with a bigger director or lead actor, and a bigger budget. (I think it might have been given a smaller budget because of it’s slightly risqué topics, which I think is unfair.)

With that aside I’d like to say I still think that Choke is underrated. It’s a great story with a lot of good twists and turns and it best of all, its hilarious. I think it had a lot of potential to be more main stream but something went wrong with that. Clark Gregg isn’t as big as a director as David Fincher (director of Fight Club) so I think it might have lost some momentum there. And with that, Sam Rockwell isn’t a huge name either. Though neither are big names I still think they did a pretty good job and the rest of the cast did as well, mainly Angelica Huston.

From what I’ve heard, if you read the book you are not going to like the film. I haven’t read it so I don’t know if that’s true. However, if you haven’t read the book I think you could really enjoy it. Its very funny, interesting and original. Don’t watch it when you are in the mood for a full blown comedy, it is really funny but more drama driven.

8/10